Taylor Sanchez didn’t just break the speed limit. He obliterated it.
This is a police officer. Sworn to uphold the law. And yet here we are in San Antonio where Officer Taylor Sanchez is now out of a job. Suspended indefinitely, they say. Some reports even call it a firing. The bureaucracy is confused. We shouldn’t be.
KSAT did the math. Or rather, they reviewed the logs. Sanchez was caught speeding at least five times in one single shift. Several more times in the following days. He treated the speedometer like a suggestion box.
118 miles per hour.
In a 65 mph zone. That isn’t enforcement. That’s a drag race on public roads. He hit that speed responding to a report about a stolen car. Just a theft report. Not a bank robbery chase. Not a kidnapping. Just… stolen goods.
Then he went 98 mph in that same zone. Authorization? None of it.
He didn’t even have his patrol cameras running.
Why record the crime if you can’t admit it exists later? That’s not strategy. It’s guilt. Or maybe just arrogance. Either way, it looks bad.
The Express-News dug up the dirt. Sanchez allegedly turned on lights and sirens he had no right to touch. Flashing the badge without permission. But the car wasn’t the only problem. It was the habits.
Off duty hours mattered less to him. Or perhaps the law just didn’t apply when no one was watching. Except someone always watches. Data does. In one non-emergency drive he clocked 103 mph. Stop signs became invisible. Red lights were just ideas. He drove the wrong way down a street. Once. Twice? Multiple times.
Who does this to themselves?
Maybe it’s not just about the driving. The digital trail was equally messy. Sanchez failed to upload over 300 clips of body-worn camera footage. Sixty-four hours. Just gone. Not deleted, perhaps. Just ignored. Buried in a drawer of digital negligence.
Discipline isn’t foreign to Sanchez. He got warned twice back in September 2025. September feels like a lifetime ago, right? Or at least it should have been enough to snap him into place.
It wasn’t.
By February 2026 he was done. The paperwork says his behavior is “detrimental to effective law enforcement.” That’s police-speak for “he’s a liability we can’t insure.” The station calls him fired one minute, suspended the next. It doesn’t really matter.
He’s not wearing the vest. Not sitting in the booth. Just driving a rental car, presumably under 65.
Or is he?
We don’t know where Taylor Sanchez is today. Only that he went too fast.
